You don’t hear much about working class Tories in the press but they used to exist, my dad was one…
Even in the labour strongholds whilst friends were cueing up for soup during the miners strike, there were plenty of right wingers causing heated arguments in pubs and working men’s clubs across the Midlands and North.
Not anymore.
Turns out that the Tories missed a few lessons at Eton…
Being a clever question dodger wins the interviews but loses your trust.
Being logical wins the debate but loses the hearts of your audience to emotional nationalism.
Being politically correct is not as important as passionately believing in something.
So whether it’s up in North East Scotland with Salmond or down in Kent with Farrage, you can agree or disagree with their politics but there is certainly a different resonance to a man who believes in something.
It’s an old adage that “a man who stands for nothing will fall for anything”; the Westminster elite should take note and remember they are supposed to be leading a tribe.
I like the adage Steve, and agree entirely!
Hi Steve,
Just wondering what on earth that newsletter was about? Never talk about religion, sex or politics!! Really put me off reading anything else you send as why do I want to hear your political views? Very strange.
Hi
in any democracy there is always room for a party to the right of centre. i am a Conservative from a lower middle class family (my dad ran a men’s wear shop in a small village in South Wales.)Every time he voted he knew that the the party of the Establishment that is the Labour Party would romp home with a majority of over 16000. I am a child of Harold MacMillan not Margaret Thatcher and during the elections of the 1950 s the party was returned to power three times in succession due to the 33% support of trade unionists and working class people which together with their families made up 45% of their e lectoral support. Without them there would have been no Conservative governments. and it also has to be remembered that it was the non university educated John Major ,grammar school boy,and certainly not from the upper classes that gave the Tories their highest ever electoral support over 14 million votes in 1992. it was the electoral system where Labour poured a lot of money into close marginal seats thus reducing Major.’s majority to only 21. The greatest phenomenon to me is not the rise of Margaret Thatcher but how in the twentieth century a party born from the landed gentry and church could govern either alone or in coalition for two thirds of the twentieth century. That to me is its greatest failure – the grand coalition who were proud to call themselves Conservative but who now have nothing really to conserve.
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